http://www.phys.sinica.edu.tw/TIGP-NANO/Course/2015_Spring.html
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<br>Special Topics on Solid State Physics: Advances and Applications
<br>Credits: 3
<br>Class Hour: Tuesday, 16:30-19:30
<br>Lecturer: Lin, Minn-Tsong(林敏聰教授)
<br>Classroom: Room 618, Department of Physics, NTU
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<br>Introduction:
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<br>This course will focus on the important and advanced topics in “modern” Solid 
<br>State Physics. Both aspects of fundamental and application will be discussed. It 
<br>requires the background knowledge of Solid State Physics as well as modern 
<br>physics, such as crystal structure, band structure, phonon, heat capacity, 
<br>electric conductivity, Fermi energy, density of state etc.. Fundamentals of 
<br>crucial materials, such as Superconductors, Semiconductors, Magnetism, etc., which 
<br>were included in the course of “Introduction to Solid State Physics” would be 
<br>briefly highlighted at beginning of the course.
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<br>Purpose of the course:
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<br>The purpose of this course is to provide the students overview and research basis 
<br>of the “modern” Solid State States. In particular, for those, who are interested 
<br>in doing research in the fields of condensed matter physics, applied physics, 
<br>material science/physics as well as nanomaterial and nanoscience, this course 
<br>would give an intensive discussion for the most updated development of these 
<br>fields.
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<br>The major content of the course would include the following topics:
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<br>Superconductors
<br>1-1 Conventional Superconductor
<br>1-2 High Tc Superconductor
<br>Magnetism & Magneto-Transport
<br>2-1 Ferromagnetism & Antiferromagnetism
<br>2-2 Magnetism in Low Dimensions & Nanomagnetism
<br>2-3 Advanced Magnetoresistive Materials: Giant Magnetoresistance, MagnetoTunnel 
<br>Junction and Spin-Dependent Transport
<br>Plasmons, Polariton, and Polarons
<br>Optical Processes and Excitons
<br>Dielectrics and Ferroelectrics
<br>Quantum Hall Effect; Kondo effect; Coulomb Blockade….
<br>Physics at Surface and Interface
<br>Advanced Materials:
<br>8-1 Graphene: Physics, Synthesis, and Application
<br>8-2 Multiferroic Materials
<br>Imaging in Nanometer Scale: Advanced Techniques of Microscopies (TEM; SEM; STM)
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